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March 12, 2009 Gimme Shelter: U.S. military deserters flock to Canada to avoid war in Iraq Finalist for the 2010 PEN Literary Award  Just 5 feet tall, with a baby strapped to her chest and a [...]

April, 2008 Family court judge sheds light on unfair child support practices in Texas Winner, Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism The problem began the night his wife didn’t come home. He had [...]

November, 2008 Pole Dancing: Good for the body, but what about a woman’s soul? The moment I walk into the Girls Room, I feel out of place. The studio’s wide, mirrored space is punctuated by [...]

May, 2008 Terrain of Grief: Widows of slain soldiers bond together to bind their wounds Best Feature from the Houston Press Club, finalist for Columbia University’s Dart Awards for [...]

September, 2009 Can an over-analytical control freak find inner peace— or at least get up in the morning—with help from an Indian life coach? I‘m on my way to see a Delhi-born meditation guru who [...]

July, 2007 Dallas Observer Elias dangles the dead iguana by the tail. His friends close in around him, watching hungrily. With a knife he slices through scaly green skin and peels it back to [...]

August, 2008 Fighting Fire with Fire: Integrating controversial medications into alcohol abuse recovery  His nightly transformation began with a twinge. Then, gnawing and relentless, it consumed [...]

September, 2007 Teenage and Trans in Texas Jacoby James’ palms were sweating. It was almost his turn. As a camera flash illuminated the curtains in front of him, he waited to have his senior [...]

April, 2007 Dallas Observer: Ground Meat  Amanda Salcido was standing in line clutching a package of ground beef when she saw the $100 bills. The man in front of her at the United Supermarket [...]

August, 2001 The San Francisco Chronicle Growing up in a noisy household of 13 children, the two brothers were serious and self-directed, with boyhood dreams that foreshadowed the men they would [...]